Do midi devices work on FreeBSD?

Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org
Sun Jul 23 08:17:18 UTC 2017


On 07/23/17 03:41, Yuri wrote:
> On 07/21/2017 08:30, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>
>> All USB MIDI devices work out of the box. If you need low latency look 
>> for high speed one. 
> 
> 

Hi,

You should add support for raw MIDI, that means a filesystem socket 
(mkfifo) and/or /dev/umidiX.Y   The USB MIDI devices don't interface 
with the kernel's MIDI API.

Typically /usr/ports/audio/midipp can be used to bridge between JACKD 
and MIDI devices.

--HPS



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